Graham - Interview 27
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When Graham first went into psychosis he thought about self-harm and went into some woods with...
When Graham first went into psychosis he thought about self-harm and went into some woods with...
Graham used to think diagnosis was helpful as it was something tangible, but he now feels...
Graham used to think diagnosis was helpful as it was something tangible, but he now feels...
Graham learnt from others and through fictional and real accounts of personal experiences.
Graham learnt from others and through fictional and real accounts of personal experiences.
After leaving hospital Graham saw a psychiatrist who he thought was weird' and specialized in...
After leaving hospital Graham saw a psychiatrist who he thought was weird' and specialized in...
Graham describes going to his GP, who explained to him that he needed to go to hospital.
Graham describes going to his GP, who explained to him that he needed to go to hospital.
Graham doesn't like taking medication although a part of him accepts that when he takes it he...
Graham doesn't like taking medication although a part of him accepts that when he takes it he...
Graham moved around a lot as a child, had to get used to different schools and eventually went to...
Graham moved around a lot as a child, had to get used to different schools and eventually went to...
It varied. It was completely different in different places. It was quite a strange experience in the initial school I was extremely quiet. I was very confused by school and I didn’t really know how to participate. I would just sit there and do nothing. And it, I adapted to different places in different ways. When we lived in [place name], there was a whole group of us around the houses where we lived and where we, a horrible gang, did all sorts of things, smashing windows on a building site and all sorts of things and rushing round on our bikes and climbing trees and playing war games, and all the things that young people do. The next place I lived it was Norfolk and there we had almost no friends, initially anyway. And school was a complete mystery. I’d moved from one school where you wrote, the way we write nowadays, to Norfolk where you wrote with all these curly letters and things. And it was like a completely brand new alphabet and discipline was completely different. You got smacked if you stopped writing and stuff like that. So it was very strange and I just shut up there. And initially I made friends and then I stopped making friends and I spent most of the time in my memory hidden in an alleyway in the school. There was a boy with a hole in the heart, who had a blue, a blue face, and he sat at one end of the alley and stared into space and I would sit at the other end of the alley staring into space. And that was basically school then. But then I went away to public school and I wish I hadn’t, but initially, initially it was very hard, but I made a lot of friends there, and got very used to it, and it was a good place. There were lots of people I liked and got on with. I would have preferred not to have been away from home, but it was a place where there were people who I could get on with.